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CVE-2017-16516
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2017-11-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-134
Description
In the yajl-ruby gem 1.3.0 for Ruby, when a crafted JSON file is supplied to Yajl::Parser.new.parse, the whole ruby process crashes with a SIGABRT in the yajl_string_decode function in yajl_encode.c. This results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 7.0
- brianmario yajl-ruby: 1.3.0
References
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/176
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
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